Patients have been killed in their beds; health workers have been attacked as they rescued the wounded. A hospital is where the most vulnerable, the sick and injured, gather in times of war. Attacks against medical facilities and health workers, whether deliberate or indiscriminate, are part of generalised violence and atrocities committed against civilians in armed conflict. They deprive people of health services, often when they need them the most.
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Crisis update — 28 November 2016
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Pregnancy and childbirth in besieged east Aleppo
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Multiple direct and indirect hits on hospitals in east Aleppo in the last 48 hours
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76 wounded and at least 21 dead in Taiz on the first day of the newly announced ceasefire
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Hospital bombings in east Aleppo force staff to move children and premature babies to basement for shelter
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Doctors under siege
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Besiegement and bombing of east Aleppo is deepening a desperate health crisis
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Many of those who left were in critical need of treatment
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We try to sleep for half an hour to gain the strength to perform another surgery
Research & Analysis
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The Continued Struggle to Access Medical Care in Afghanistan
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MSF President to UN Security Council: “Stop these attacks”
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Kunduz, Afghanistan, 36°43’4.91’’N, 68°51’43.96’’
Saving Lives and Staying Alive
Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières
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MSF releases detailed documentation of attacks on two medical facilities ahead of UNSC closed session on protection of medical mission
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MSF urges Syrian government and its allies to stop indiscriminate bombing in Aleppo
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